Symbolics.com was the first-ever registered domain on March 15, 1985. Looking back over the past 25 years, the growth of the Internet has been unprecedented writes Benny Evangelista in the San Francisco Chronicle. His article outlines some interesting facts:
Want to know what the first ten registered .com domains were?
The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), a partnership between the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), released the 2009 Annual Report about fraudulent activity on the Internet March 12, 2010.
Online crime complaints increased substantially once again last year, according to the report. The IC3 received a total of 336,655 complaints, a 22.3 percent increase from 2008. The total loss linked to online fraud was $559.7 million; this is up from $265 million in 2008.
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The team over at MediaSmartServer.net has published their latest version of WHS Health.
HP announces the availability of a new Windows Home Server add-in that allows TiVo owners to expand storage by transferring content from TiVo to an HP Windows Home Server. The free HP MediaSmart Expander for TiVo add-in integrates seamlessly into the HP branded WHS console and is compatible only with the latest generation of HP home servers – the MediaSmart Server EX490/EX495 and the HP StorageWorks Data Vault series.
Microsoft has decided to pull the plug on granny… or wait… I’m thinking of a something else. As of June 30th, 2010, Microsoft will discontinue all future Essential Business Server (EBS) Development as a result of what they call “The evolution of the mid-market customers”. Several reasons have been listed such as management, virtualization, and cloud computing. They stated that these features are already including in Windows Server 2008 R2 which we know they would like to push people towards anyway.
Logitech has updated their Squeezebox Server add-in for the Windows Home Server platform which allows the Logitech Squeezebox to playback music from Windows Home Server.
The Windows Home Server team announces their dedicated Youtube channel for your viewing pleasure.
A new add-in by The Office Maven allows you to install Intuit QuickBooks onto your Windows Home Server and then access it from any authorized client.
Do you consider yourself to be “The Defraganator”? Do you wake up in the morning and smell the hard drives? Well then, there is good news for you on the horizon. PerfectDisk 11 will be released on March 9th and from what we have seen it looks to add some killer functionality.
Felix Kollmann, would like to announce the recent release of his new Add-In ......
MediaSmartServer.Net has reported the release of an update for the 3.0 software...........
Windows Guru Bjoern Buerstinghaus illustrates a tip on how to create a Windows taskbar shortcut linking directly to the Windows Home Server shared folders.
Brent Friedman of CompuGeek Software released an updated version of the WHS Mobile add-in / iPhone app. Which currently stands at version 1.5.4.0.
A new add-in by The Office Maven allows you to install Intuit Quicken onto your home server and then access it from any authorized client. Since Microsoft choose to discontinue the Microsoft Money software last spring, Intuit’s Quicken has become the undisputed market-leading personal finance software. What’s particularly exciting is that now, with the power of WHS Quicken users can elevate the Windows Home Server into new realms by incorporating productivity and lifestyle.
Alex Kuretz, over at MediaSmartServer.net, recently broke the news that the much anticipated HP MediaSmart Server 3.0 Software update will be available later this week.